Muriel Elizabeth Bowser (born August 2, 1972) is an American politician serving as the eighth Mayor of the District of Columbia since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented Ward 4 as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2015. She is the second female Mayor of the District of Columbia after Sharon Pratt, and the first woman to be reelected to that position.
Three days after reinstating Delaware to its list of high-risk states for COVID-19, the D.C. Department of Health on Thursday for the second time dropped Delaware from the list, saying it based its flip-flop on new data provided by the Delaware Division of Public Health.
Under an order issued by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser in July, visitors arriving in D.C. from a state on the city’s high-risk list — and D.C.
residents returning home from a state designated as high-risk — are required to self-quarantine for 14 days if their travel is considered non-essential.
The mayor’s order designates vacation related travel as non-essential, a development that has had a direct impact on many D.C.